Secondary schools, colleges of further and adult education and institutes of technology are facing strike action by members of the Teachers' Union of Ireland next month.

Secondary school teachers have voted to strike over lower pay for new entrants to the profession.

This delay is undermining confidence in a resolution negotiated last April, the largest teaching union in Ireland has warned.

A question on the Northern Ireland Executive may have surprised students sitting the ordinary level politics and society paper as the 2019 Leaving Cert exams officially drew to a close.

A long-awaited decision on the Munster Technological University is expected to be made shortly as an independent report sparks uncertainty over the project.

There were mixed views on today's higher level Maths Paper 2.

Junior Cert students faced a tricky proposition with today's Maths Paper 2, according to teachers.

Higher level maths students faced an algebra-dominated paper without any financial maths, but it was easier and shorter than their mock exams, teachers say.

The Teachers' Union of Ireland is warning that a significant projected increase in the number of students in the country's third level institutions will greatly worsen the current crisis in the sector unless urgent action is taken.

Latest: The calls come after a new government report says it will cost €200million to address pay inequality for new entrants to the public sector.

Irish secondary schools could be facing industrial action.

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There is growing criticism of the new public sector pay deal.

As they hold their annual conferences this week, teaching unions are ratcheting up calls for pay parity over the reduced rates paid to people qualified after 2011.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan is disturbed by the idea of teachers blocking colleagues from upskilling themselves as the impasse on junior cycle reform shows no sign of lifting.

Education Minister Jan O'Sullivan has insisted she will push on with controversial junior cert reforms despite strong opposition from unions.

A change to college rules in the summer means governing body members at IT Tralee can no longer study for degrees there.

The Teachers' Union of Ireland (TUI) has voted to accept the Haddington Road Agreement by a majority of 54% to 46%, on a turnout of 65%.

Secondary schoolteachers are to take industrial action over the revised public sector pay deal.

The Teachers' Union of Ireland has stated that its members will be expecting more pay if the new Junior Cert system leads to their workload being increased.

The Government is being warned it needs to start training new teachers now to cope with an increased student population in the years ahead

The standing committee of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland is meeting this afternoon to consider the proposed public sector agreement.

The executive committee of the Teachers' Union of Ireland (TUI) this evening decided to reject the public service proposals agreed with the Government recently.

The Teachers' Union of Ireland (TUI) today expressed concern that recommendations of cuts to third-level education outlined in the McCarthy report would have huge negative effects for economic recovery.

Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe has been greeted with boos and shouts of "shame" at the annual conference of the Teachers' Union of Ireland in Cork today.

The Teachers' Union of Ireland is to meet the Minister for Education today to ask him to reverse planned cutbacks in education.

WHY did the Minister for Education and Science, Mary Hanafin, establish a task force on discipline in schools? The answer is because there is a crisis in discipline.

STUDENTS who carry dangerous weapons make threats and sexual remarks to teachers or assault classmates could have some of their legal rights cut back as a result of measures being announced today.

TEACHERS at Cork School of Music have told the Government the time is over for excuses about delays in work on their new €60 million facility.

THE Teachers' Union of Ireland has criticised the "woefully inadequate" support system for teachers trying to tackle the growing problem of disruptive students in class.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell does not remember if he read the file of Nigerian student Olunkunle Elunkanlo before deciding to deport him in controversial circumstances.

THE long-awaited redevelopment of the Cork School of Music will not go ahead unless European finance rules are changed, Education Minister Noel Dempsey insisted yesterday.